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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eisenhower want to paralyze in the weeks leading up to D-Day?
(a) French and German farms.
(b) French railway system.
(c) German artillery stockpiles.
(d) German oil reserves.

2. Who are the "Old Ladies"?
(a) Destroyers.
(b) Submarines.
(c) Battleships.
(d) Carriers.

3. What novel does Ambrose refer to when discussing the bomber missions?
(a) The Longest Day.
(b) Catcher in the Rye.
(c) Fall to Arms.
(d) Catch 22.

4. Many of the medics on D-Day are actually what?
(a) Volunteers.
(b) Women.
(c) Cooks.
(d) Clerks.

5. What do the bomber pilots think is Hitler's "secret weapon"?
(a) Bombs.
(b) Clouds.
(c) Low lying wires.
(d) Snipers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the commander who wants the paratroopers to be utilized better during the war?

2. Who is the biggest advocate of the Oil Plan?

3. How many infantrymen crowd into the boats carrying them to the beach?

4. Who is against the initial plans for the British airborne forces to take Caen?

5. Where is the command post of General Bradley?

(see the answer key)

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